Key Qualifications
Şefika Pekin is one of the senior partners and has extensive experience in a range of litigation and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, privatizations, joint ventures, banking and finance, capital markets, IPO. Ms. Pekin regularly represents foreign companies and banks, private equity funds, and other investment funds and financial institutions in cross-border transactions, specifically in Turkey. She also has significant experience in dispute resolutions, corporate law, project finance, capital markets and public offerings. Her industry expertise includes dispute resolutions, energy, banking and finance, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications and media.
She has been a senior partner with Pekin & Bayar Law Firm since 1993.
Education
University of Istanbul Law Faculty, Faculty of Law, L.L.B.
University of Sorbonne, Liberal Arts
American College Institute for Girls, High School.
Membership
Istanbul Bar Association
International Bar Association
Union of European Lawyers (UAE)
World Services Group (WSG)
British Chamber of Commercial in Turkey
Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen Association (TUSIAD)
Board of Directors of Tekfen Holding A.S.
Board of Trustees of Robert College
Board of Directors of Hisar Foundation School
Board of Trustees of Hisar Foundation School
Turkish Equestrian Federation
Turkish Equestrian Riding Club